okay, i haven’t read the news or anything like that, in a few days, but from what i gather, "they" have apparently thwarted a “terrorist plot” recently, which involved multiple “terrorists” smuggling liquids, which are not explosive by themselves, onto airplanes, and then combining them into an explosive once the plane is underway. while distressing, that’s not what i’m the most alarmed by…
apparently, "their" response to all this has been anywhere from banning all liquids except baby formula from carry-on luggage – which is interesting considering the furor that was created last year when someone was forced, by clownland security goons, to drink a bottle of breastmilk that was in their carry-on luggage – to banning all carry-on luggage, which would effectively prevent just about anybody from travelling anywhere for less than a week unless they were willing to find other modes of transportation – i don’t know, i probably don’t want to know, and i will probably be forced into knowledge of the exact details of this fiasco a lot sooner than i would like. neither of these things will do a single thing from stopping a determined “terrorist” from exerting whatever control they think they can get away with, over an airplane full of passengers who are so scared of people like that, that they will be eating out of the “terrorists” hand at the mere suggestion of a highjacking, but they will make it practically impossible for us “normal” folks to travel pretty much anywhere without some untrained moron pawing through our luggage any time we hit the ground.
now keep in mind that i haven’t seen the news on TV, read a newspaper or listened to the radio in at least a week, and i have only been reading individuals’ journals and doing updates on my own web sites, when i’ve not been at various different rehearsals, for a couple of days, so my initial impressions are probably way off, but this strikes me as precisely the reason why every person associated with the bush administration, especially those stupids that voted for him, and then voted for him again, should be… i’m not even sure what they should be. killed would be nice, but not practical. jailed would also be appropriate, especially considering the criminal activities that lead up to the current mockery of justice being perpetrated in the name of democracy we’re currently suffering with, but also not practical…
i’m seething. i can’t say what i really want to say, because of aphasia, but i’m not sure whether it would have been any better before my injury… i’m not sure that there is anything rational to say about such stupidity at such high levels…
Well, if it’s a distraction, it worked. Too many people are cussing out their airlines to notice.
that, or the fact that they wanted something to distract us while they proposed retroactive war crimes protection and eliminating the bill of rights and they didn’t want anyone to notice… 8/
Making the big announcement probably just sent the people who weren’t caught into hiding. Unless “they” were concerned that the ones left would actually be able to pull it off (not too hard a feat considering some of the gorillas in security) and decided to use fear and inconvenience the rest of the populus to try and catch the remaining ones.
the thing about baby formula is ironic, considering how they forced a person to drink a bottle of breastmilk last year, when they were all up in arms and making new security regulations after that guy was caught with the bomb in his shoe… 8/
I’m actually watching something on the news about it right now… how freaking ridiculous! I mean, how can we even really know there was anything “foiled” — no one really knows what did or didn’t happen and the media is all over it. I totally agree in that this stupidity and freaking out isn’t going to stop anyone from doing whatever they want if they’re determined, it only makes it more fun, I suppose.
Every single time I’ve flown in the past couple of years my stuff has been gone through and we’ve gotten a nice little note from the TSA telling us how safe we are, now that they’ve looked at my underwear and determined them not to be a threat.
btw, they’re saying both baby formula and liquid rx drugs will be allowed.